here's colin powell on cbs. >> lu endorse president obama? >> yes. when he took over, we were in one of the worst recessions we have seen in recent timesish close to a depression. the fiscal system was collapsing. wall street was in chaos. and we were in very difficult straits. and i saw over the next several years stabilization come back in the financial community. housing is starting to pick up. consumer confidence is rising. the president saved the auto industry. i also saw the president get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war. and the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid. i think we ought to keep on the track that we are on. >> joy, if team obama had written a script for colin powell for an ad, it couldn't be better than that. it's an amazingly compact and full case for the president. >> yeah, absolutely. and colin powell is one of the few bush administration figures who retained a strong measure of popularity. by the way, he's the only probably republican that could take